Breaking the Chains of Psycological Slavery
Psychological Legacy of SlaveryIt has been decades since the end of physical slavery. However, psychological slavery is very prevalent in the society that we live in today. According to this chapter, we as African Americans fail to realize that we limit ourselves in doing a gluttony of activities as a consequence of the psycological chains that we are bound by. During slavery times, slaves viewed the mere fact that freedom meant not doing work, yet still receiving wealth. The whites appeared as if they did no work yet still managed to be wealthy. This is evident in todays society where we have hustlers and pimps who appear to be wealthy yet have other people perform their "dirty" work. In addition, individuals who were natural born leaders or rebels of the way life was as a slave were often eliminated from the plantation by being sold or killed. In present time, African American leaders are not supported by people of their own. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had many against them and opted to settle for the life that the white people wanted them to live. The clown was often a character that an African American played and entertained in order to be seen in the public eye. White people looked forward to watching slave clowns with hopes to be thoroughly entertained by them. African Americans in our society have opted to be entertainers rather than entrepreneaurs. Many of our African American students are only in school with hopes to make it to national leagues for various sports or to Hollywood. Furthermore, present day society has adopted the mindset that white is beautiful as opposed to black is beautiful. Scientists have come up with bleach that women use in order to lighten their skin. Men opt to marry and bewife a lighter complexion woman as opposed to one with a darker skin tone. Moreover, families in the African American society remain to be broken as a result of the brokenness that was reoccurent during...

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